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Unlock your leadership potential by understanding your strengths.
Unlock your leadership potential by understanding your strengths.
Introducing the top five most useful books for a leader in healthcare.
Introducing the top five most useful books for a leader in healthcare.
Seeing Beyond
Seeing Beyond
Another day of meetings?
Another day of meetings?
Your personal advisory board
Your personal advisory board
Why this matters
Why this matters
Start with Trust
Start with Trust
Overthinking Candy Crush
Overthinking Candy Crush
Could Star Wars fix the healthcare workforce issues?
Could Star Wars fix the healthcare workforce issues?
The Healthy Mind Platter
The Healthy Mind Platter
Help me, I’m overwhelmed
Help me, I’m overwhelmed
Wayfinding Leadership
Wayfinding Leadership
Gratefully noticing
Gratefully noticing
Decisions, compassion and how people feel
Decisions, compassion and how people feel
A little of what we need
A little of what we need
Moving beyond disappointment
Moving beyond disappointment
HALT
HALT
What are your strengths?
What are your strengths?
Morning Tea
Morning Tea
Grit, purpose and hope
Grit, purpose and hope
Fear into determination
Fear into determination
What is your gap plan
What is your gap plan
How are you?
How are you?
Keep going
Keep going
Three good things
Three good things
Start here
Start here
If you are looking for joy in work, these are the foundations.
If you are looking for joy in work, these are the foundations.
Joy in Work
Joy in Work
Your values
Your values
5 ways to wellbeing
5 ways to wellbeing

At your best

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The No Jedi Origin
The No Jedi Origin
Overthinking Candy Crush
Overthinking Candy Crush
The knee, the bike and an ever-growing TED talk
The knee, the bike and an ever-growing TED talk
It’s all about the patients, it’s not about the patients.
It’s all about the patients, it’s not about the patients.
Letting hope in
Letting hope in
Concussion, COVID and Cancer
Concussion, COVID and Cancer
Step 3: Putting in the work
Step 3: Putting in the work
Step 2: Find more friends
Step 2: Find more friends
Step 1 : Find a friend
Step 1 : Find a friend
Be kind, be curious, be courageous
Be kind, be curious, be courageous
Reconnecting
Reconnecting
Nursing Now
Nursing Now
May the 4th
May the 4th
That time of year
That time of year
Singing in the shower
Singing in the shower
I am no Jedi
I am no Jedi
Out of my comfort zone for Open Minds
Out of my comfort zone for Open Minds

My Stories

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Leading change in healthcare - how are you going to start a movement?
Leading change in healthcare - how are you going to start a movement?
Trouble getting your point across right now? Will a picture help?
Trouble getting your point across right now? Will a picture help?
Seeing Beyond
Seeing Beyond
Absolutely your most important meeting: Increase your leadership impact with every 1:1 meeting
Absolutely your most important meeting: Increase your leadership impact with every 1:1 meeting
Welcome
Welcome
Elevate Your Impact: Public Speaking Tips for Healthcare Leaders
Elevate Your Impact: Public Speaking Tips for Healthcare Leaders
Help, I need somebody
Help, I need somebody
17 Top Teamwork Quotes
17 Top Teamwork Quotes
Time for a boost
Time for a boost
Make it specific.....make it personal
Make it specific.....make it personal
Moving from the Dance Floor to the Balcony
Moving from the Dance Floor to the Balcony
Simple, complicated and complex
Simple, complicated and complex
Checking in:
Checking in:
It can take just a moment
It can take just a moment
HALT
HALT
Teaching online
Teaching online
Adopting early?
Adopting early?
A Twitter Starter
A Twitter Starter
Recruitment Starter Pack #3: We love an interview?
Recruitment Starter Pack #3: We love an interview?
Recruitment Starter Pack #2 : Getting the right people on the bus
Recruitment Starter Pack #2 : Getting the right people on the bus
Recruitment Starter Pack #1 : So you've got a vacancy?
Recruitment Starter Pack #1 : So you've got a vacancy?
Connecting with your team
Connecting with your team
It's a meeting
It's a meeting
Starting and Following
Starting and Following
Reflection
Reflection
SWOT
SWOT
How do you know?
How do you know?
Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive Leadership
A little change
A little change
Taking the feedback
Taking the feedback
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Help, I need somebody
Help, I need somebody
Help me, I’m overwhelmed
Help me, I’m overwhelmed
Checking in:
Checking in:
Tracking those goals
Tracking those goals
Will I ever find that........
Will I ever find that........
Your end of year reflection
Your end of year reflection
Where did I put that....?
Where did I put that....?
Live your Legend
Live your Legend

Productivity

Skills

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There’s a cure for this
There’s a cure for this
Learning and Development when money is tight or the budget non-existent.
Learning and Development when money is tight or the budget non-existent.
15 stunning leadership quotes
15 stunning leadership quotes
13 quotes about change
13 quotes about change
Science and Art
Science and Art
A podcast or two
A podcast or two
Reading Recommendations
Reading Recommendations
Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive Leadership
Alive at Work
Alive at Work
Break...Transform....Create
Break...Transform....Create
My year of experiments
My year of experiments
The 2017 book review
The 2017 book review
Read your way to success
Read your way to success
One thing at a time
One thing at a time
FISH
FISH
From Good to Great
From Good to Great
Top five books for 2016
Top five books for 2016
Top TED talks of 2016
Top TED talks of 2016
Say hello to TED
Say hello to TED
When the iceberg is melting
When the iceberg is melting
How to be a positive deviant
How to be a positive deviant

The Library

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15 stunning leadership quotes
15 stunning leadership quotes
13 quotes about change
13 quotes about change
Wayfinding Leadership
Wayfinding Leadership
Building Hope
Building Hope
Evolution
Evolution
Who is Patrick Lencioni
Who is Patrick Lencioni
Starting and Following
Starting and Following
Stockdale Paradox
Stockdale Paradox
Lean In
Lean In
These moments matter
These moments matter
Nursing Now
Nursing Now
Generations
Generations
Daring
Daring
To be a nurse
To be a nurse
A change of plan
A change of plan
I'm being bullied
I'm being bullied
And the socks are pink
And the socks are pink
Is sleep overrated?
Is sleep overrated?
The beginners guide to the HQSC
The beginners guide to the HQSC
From Good to Great
From Good to Great
Hello my name is
Hello my name is

People you should know

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Leading with Hope: Healthcare Leadership for the Future
Leading with Hope: Healthcare Leadership for the Future
Introduction to the S.C.A.R.F model
Introduction to the S.C.A.R.F model
Trust
Trust
Gratitude
Gratitude
Why you need your own Square Squad
Why you need your own Square Squad
Spread a little kindness
Spread a little kindness
Digging into empathy
Digging into empathy
What makes a leader?
What makes a leader?
A moment it came together
A moment it came together
That's what friends are for
That's what friends are for
Why you should be grateful and not only in April!
Why you should be grateful and not only in April!
Showing up and finding a bright spot
Showing up and finding a bright spot
Is it OK to ask a stupid question?
Is it OK to ask a stupid question?
Coming to you from a submarine
Coming to you from a submarine
On Trust
On Trust

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